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Stray electricity in the aquarium is unsafe for you as well as your livestock. Usually the only time it is noticed is when a person reaches in the tank with a

From the About page: What is MarcNA? MarcNA is the first of its kind! Never before has there been a 24-hour educational event for the reef keeping hobby. All

I feel like I blog about calcium reactor stuff a lot.  I wonder if I would do the same with 2-part dosing? lol Last Sunday, I did a 100g water change on the

Checking my blogs, I saw that back in 2008, I added up what it cost to run my reef electricity-wise:  https://melevsreef.com/index.php/blogs/cost-running-reef

I asked Jake Adams about this coral last year, because I had a feeling it was more than "just a weird fungia" with that very elongated mouth.  I've taken many

Each year, I like to do a video on the anniversary date of the reef.  Last month, my reef turned 9 years old (Nov 10, 2022).  By that, I mean the livestock has

For the last 7 weeks, my entire home has had power fluctuations that were really frustrating. Initially I noticed lights flickering in the bathrooms and

If you have ever acquired liverock that came from Florida, odds are it had a few individual polyps that extended short tentacles.  Those are called Cup Corals

In a previous blog, I mentioned that I bought some live rock from a Florida business. Over time, I've observed all sorts of life appear from the nooks and

The reef has been running 8 years 9 months.  Picked up a new acropora from Aquashella over the weekend called Master Yoda.

At Aquashella Dallas, my plan was to pick up some ricordea and zoanthids for Caitlin's Reef.  Here are the frags from the first day. The following day I came